St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-10
The Business Manager of the Tribune
Drives His Horse Too Fast to
Suit the Police.
Clausen's Yellowstone Park Panorama
Seen and Greatly Admired by
a Large Crowd.
A Special Council Meeting Will This
Afternoon Consider Matters
of Much Interest.
Paul Grottkau Coming to Minneapolis
Street Peddlers Must Take
Out Licenses.
"FAST.DRIVING FIENDS,"
"Who Regard Neither Toddlin;
Infancy Nor Hating Old Age"


Infancy Nor Hating Old Age"
The Tribune has been complaining
that too few arrests have been made for
fast driving. Wednesday it remarked:
Many witnessed a reign of terror on our
thoroughfares. The fast-driving tiends had
regard neither for toddling infancy nor for
hating old age. Yet there was only one ar
rest in the entire month of May for reckless
driving when there ought to have been at
least hundred day.
Yesterday the editor of the Tribune
contributed the following gem of
thought upon the subject, by the way of
commencing the action of the police in
making several arrests for fast driving:
The gentlemen of the police force have en-
tered earnestly into the work of making the
busy streets of the city safe for pedestrians.
The Tribune extends thanks, congratulations,
and the compliments of the season.
Patrolman Gustafson may or may not
have read the foregoing editorial bon
motS, but nevertheless he was alive to
the necessity of doing his duty yester-
day morning. AS he stood on the side
walk at the intersection of Third street
and Nicollet avenue he was startled by
the apparition of horse and carriage
which were rapidly coming down
the street. The animals nostrils
were diStended, its binders were flap
ping in the wind, and its hoofs We're
beating an animated tattoo upon
the pavement. Behind the horse sat
gentleman with flowing sidewhiskers.
He held the reinS with the air of a vet
eran turfman. a white plug hat was
perched jauntily on one side of his head,
and he had all the symptoms of being
RECKLESS driver" who wot not at what
he VOTED. The officer was equal to
the emergency. He sprang at the
horses head, and brought the unholy
and demOraliZing spectacle to sudden
check.
Hi, there! what in thunder are you doing?
let go, there; get out of the way screamed
the individual with the side whiskers and
white hat.
- arrest you for fast driving" yelled the
policeman.
hanged if you do: You go and mind your
business. lang" answered the reckless
driver, as he whipped up his steed
That's what I'm doing" was the Off
GERS reply. but he allowed the horse to
jerk loose from his grasp, and moment
later was alone in the street. You'll
bet I'll attend to my business" he
growled, and a half an hour later war
rant was sworn out in the municipal
court, charging A. j. Blethen with driv-
ing at reckless rate of speed, exceed
ing SIX miles an hour, contrary to the
ordinance-A. j. Blethen, the peda-
logue who was the tutor of Sol Smith
Russell; A. J. Blethen, whose voice is
for James &. Blaine, of Maine, who has
made the Tribune what it is" and
whose fearless attitude in the columns
of his thoroughly alive and aggressive
newspaper against the fast driving
nuisance has received the Endorsement
OF all thinking citizens. He will be ar
rested to-day, and when he stands be-
fore the barof justice, let it be hoped,
as has been so ably said by the Tribune,
that Judge Bailey will paste it to
'em.'n